Sandy Hook 911 Tapes Released

Recordings Document Moments After Adam Lanza Entered Newtown School

By

Joseph De Avila

Updated Dec. 4, 2013 3:57 p.m. ET

As a gunman attacked Sandy Hook Elementary School last year, staff members inside relayed their mounting horror to police dispatchers who calmly urged them to take cover and protect the students, according to emergency recordings released Wednesday.

The seven calls totaling about 25 minutes produced little new information on the assault Dec. 14 that took the lives of 20 students, six staff members and the shooter, except to serve as a...